Late in the night, hot on idoru's advice, I recompiled my Linux kernel. Now I feel as if I'm REALLY in control of my computer. It makes me wonder how Microsoft can sleep at night knowing they're overcharging everyone for their upgrades. It also makes me wonder why the hell I'm using a Windoze computer to write this writeup.

What scanners am I looking for? I'm partial towards Hewlett-Packard stuff, but lately I'm learning towards the older ScanJet models (Scanjet IIcx, or the better ScanJet 3C or 4C) that take in legal-size paper and sports the "I'm a scanner that belongs to an office, so don't fuck with me!" look. I remembered my first scanner used (ScanJet 3C?) in high school was in this design.